The EMBOSS factory class encapsulates access to EMBOSS programs. A factory object allows creation of only known applications.

If you want to check command line options before sending them to the program set $prog->verbose to positive integer. The value is passed on to programs objects and the ADC description of the available command line options is parsed and compared to input.

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Title : program
Usage : $embossfactory->program('program_name')
Function: Creates a representation of a single EMBOSS program
Returns : Bio::Tools::Run::EMBOSSApplication object
Args : string, program name

Title : program_info
Usage : $embossfactory->program_info('emma')
Function: Finds out if the program is available.
Returns : definition string of the program, undef if program name not known
Args : string, prgramname